Where does Walters Gardens, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Walters Gardens, Inc. ranks #831 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Walters Gardens, Inc. hold?

Walters Gardens, Inc. holds 554 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Walters Gardens, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Walters Gardens, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 25.9 out of 100 (19th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Walters Gardens, Inc. focus on?

Walters Gardens, Inc. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Walters Gardens, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Walters Gardens, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +23% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Walters Gardens, Inc.'s patents?

Walters Gardens, Inc.'s patents average 1.0 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Walters Gardens, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Walters Gardens, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 554 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Walters ranks #831 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 554 patents across 0 technology areas.

#831
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 19th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.9/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: +23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R831 · US Corporation #831 · 554 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 554 grants
TOP-DECILE #831/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rolls-royce…
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-THIN 25.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +23% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (±1 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chengdu Qinchuan… · near

26
Walters Gardens · this assignee

26
Brownmed · near

26
Zhonghao Chenguang… · near

26
Carebay Europe · near

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Walters's Innovation Score is 25.9/100 (19th percentile of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Where Walters's grants concentrate

Walters Gardens, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2020 (104 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2015. By volume, Walters sits between Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG and Inserm (INSTITUT National DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA Recherche MÉDICALE).

Walters's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Walters Gardens, Inc. moved from 244 to 129 grants (0.53x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,624. See the growth leaderboard.

Rolls-royce Deuts…

555
Stmicroelectronic…

555
Sumitomo Heavy In…

555
Wuhan Tianma Micr…

555
Walters Gardens ◀

554
Lapis Semiconduct…

552
Gree Holdings

549
Alps Alpine

546
Inserm (Institut…

545

What this shows Walters holds 554 patents at rank #831, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Walters

By rank, the assignees closest to #831 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Walters, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (26 here).

Chengdu Qinchuan Technology Development Co., Ltd. 26 Brownmed, Inc. 26 Zhonghao Chenguang Research Institute of Chemiccal Industry Company Limited 26 Carebay Europe Ltd 26

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.0 here).

Anthura B.V. 1.0 avg Brother Industries, Ltd. 1.0 avg Poulsen Roser A/S 1.0 avg J. Choo Limited 1.0 avg

Walters's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

26 19th percentile higher than 19% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Walters Gardens, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	1.8%
2016	30	5.4%
2017	52	9.4%
2018	56	10.1%
2019	86	15.5%
2020	104	18.8%
2021	54	9.7%
2022	53	9.6%
2023	36	6.5%
2024	40	7.2%
2025partial year	33	6.0%

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#831

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

25.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Walters Gardens, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #831 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Walters Gardens, Inc. against Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.9/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.